Suppression of Yolk Formation, Oviposition and Egg Quality of Locust () Infected by

Overview

Journal Front Immunol

Specialty Allergy & Immunology

Date 2022 Aug 8

PMID 35935997

Authors

Yao-Wen Hu

Shao-Hua Wang

Ya Tang

Guo-Qiang Xie

Yan-Juan Ding

Qing-Ye Xu

Bin Tang

Long Zhang

Shi-Gui Wang

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Abstract

is one of the most important agricultural pests in China. The locust has high fecundity and consumes large quantities of food, causing severe damage to diverse crops such as corn, sorghum, and rice. Immunity against pathogens and reproductive success are two important components of individual fitness, and many insects have a trade-off between reproduction and immunity when resources are limited, which may be an important target for pest control. In this study, adult females were treated with different concentrations (5 × 10 spores/mL or 2 × 10 spores/mL) of the entomopathogenic fungus . Effects of input to immunity on reproduction were studied by measuring feeding amount, enzyme activity, vitellogenin (Vg) and vitellogenin receptor (VgR) production, ovary development, and oviposition amount. When infected by , feeding rate and phenol oxidase and lysozyme activities increased, mRNA expression of and genes decreased, and yolk deposition was blocked. Weight of ovaries decreased, with significant decreases in egg, length and weight.Thus, locusts used nutritive input required for reproduction to resist invasion by microsporidia. This leads to a decrease in expression of and genes inhibited ovarian development, and greatly decreased total fecundity. at 2 × 10 spores/mL had a more obvious inhibitory effect on the ovarian development in migratory locusts. This study provides a detailed trade-off between reproduction and immune input of the female, which provides a reliable basis to find pest targets for biological control from those trade-off processes.

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